What Happens to Children Who are Neglected?: A Four-country Study Assessing the Relation between Inattention to Children in Poverty and their Well-being

Authors

William Brubaker, Brigham Young University
Dr. Kirk Dearden, Brigham Young University

Keywords

neglected children, inattention, poverty, well-being

College

Life Sciences

Department

Health Science

Abstract

Children experience extreme poverty differently than adults. Child poverty cannot only be categorized in terms of family income since it is experienced as both material and developmental deprivation. In order to fully assess the effects of childhood poverty, children’s experiences based on set outcomes must be taken into account. We used a dataset collected by Young Lives, a long-term longitudinal study conducted in India, Ethiopia, Vietnam and Peru investigating the changing nature of childhood poverty. In our proposed study we used a cohort of 1,000 8-year-olds from each country to examine the relationship between childhood unwantedness and health, educational, and mental outcomes.

Recommended Citation

Brubaker, William and Dearden, Dr. Kirk (2013) "What Happens to Children Who are Neglected?: A Four-country Study Assessing the Relation between Inattention to Children in Poverty and their Well-being," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013: Iss. 1, Article 1179.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/1179